Dam! Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park

Name: Dam! Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park
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ISBN: 9780375422317

ISBN-10: 0375422315

ISBN-13: 9780375422317

Edition: 2005

Authors: John W. Simpson, John W. Simpson

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A vivid account of America’s first environmental cause célèbre, which illuminates our attitudes toward fundamental questions of growth, development, and our place in nature. The building of the O’Shaughnessy Dam and Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the middle of Yosemite National Park–despite the availability of less expensive, less technically challenging, and less politically complicated possibilities–set off a defining controversy in American environmentalism. From the early 1900s to 1913 Americans argued about proposals to dam the Tuolumne River and transform the extraordinary Hetch Hetchy Valley into a giant source of water and hydroelectric power for the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a…

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List price: $28.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/12/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

John Warfield Simpson is a professor of Landscape Architecture and Natural Resources at Ohio State University, he lives in Upper Arlington, Ohio.



Map: Regional Waterscape


Preface



The Origins of Yosemite National Park


Map: Yosemite National Park



The Struggle for the Valley



Olmsted, Muir, and the State Reserve



Pinchot, the Park, and the Conservation Movement



Theodore Roosevelt; The Park's Revision



The Hetch Hetchy Controversy, Past and Present


Map: Schematic Diagram of the Spfuc-Hhwp System



Spring Valley and the Boomtown Politics of Water



James Duval Phelan and the Imperial Dream



The Private Debate over Hetch Hetchy



A National Cause Celebre



The Political Outcome



Competing Claims for Water



Mismanaging the Dream



Constructing the Engineering Marvel



The Raker Act's Ignored Mandate



PG&E and the Politics of Public Power



Restoring the Promise



Dld Issues; A New Dream


Source Notes


Acknowledgments


Index